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A glance at Stefan Molyneux鈥檚 subscriber count (650,000+) on YouTube suggests that he is a charismatic, persuasive and influential individual. A skilled propagandist and an effective communicator within the racist 鈥渁lt-right鈥� and pro-Trump ranks, his promotion of scientific racism and eugenics to a large and growing audience is a serious concern. Molyneux has been delivering 鈥渞ace realist鈥� propaganda, based on pseudo-scientific sources, to his audience on an ongoing basis for over two years, and thus has encouraged thousands of people to adopt his belief in biological determinism, social Darwinism and non-white racial inferiority. Molyneux puts considerable effort into cloaking the practical implications of these beliefs across his media platforms.

In his own words

鈥淚 don鈥檛 view humanity as a single species...鈥�
鈥擯odcast FDR2768,听鈥�Collective Guilt for Fun and Profit鈥�,

鈥淭he whole breeding arena of the species needs to be cleaned the f--- up!鈥�
鈥擯odcast FDR2740,听鈥�Conformity and the Cult of 鈥楩riendship鈥�,鈥�

"Screaming 'racism' at people because blacks are collectively less intelligent...is insane."
鈥擸ouTube video,听The Death of Europe | European Migrant Crisis,听

鈥淵ou cannot run a high IQ [white] society with low IQ [non-white] people鈥�these [non-white] immigrants are going to fail...and they're not just going to fail a little, they are going to fail hard鈥�they're not staying on welfare because they鈥檙e lazy...they鈥檙e doing what is economically the best option for them...you are importing a gene set that is incompatible with success in a free-market economy.鈥�
鈥擸ouTube video,听The Death of Europe | European Migrant Crisis,听

鈥�...white people will bend over backwards to accommodate you, but when they finally get that they鈥檙e just being taken advantage of...you will see a backlash, and that backlash will be quick, decisive, and brutal.鈥�
鈥擸ouTube video,听The Death of Germany聽|聽European Migrant Crisis,听

鈥�...the Germans were in danger of being taken over by what they perceived as Jewish-led Communism. And Jewish-led Communism had wiped out tens of millions of white Christians in Russia and they were afraid of the same thing. And there was this wild overreaction and all this kind of stuff.鈥�
鈥擲tefan Molyneux describes the Holocaust in YouTube video,听Migratory Patterns of聽Predatory Immigrants,听

鈥�...skills and abilities have not been distributed evenly by mother nature between various ethnicities and what that means is that when the shit hits the wall it hits some ethnicities a lot harder than others and then you get endless screams of 鈥渞acism鈥�...this is one fundamental reason why America is having trouble solving these problems is that everybody knows that if you cut spending which community is it going to be hit the hardest? Hint: it鈥檚 not Korean鈥�if you cut social spending in America it鈥檚 going to hit the black community the hardest ...the black and Hispanic communities don鈥檛 end up acting the same as the white population or the Asian population...the media are compliant and willing to scream 鈥渞acist鈥� at anyone who points out basic fact-based differences between ethnicities鈥�[and] you can鈥檛 deal with the situation until Obama鈥檚 out or until people understand that ethnicities in America and all around the world tend to act differently [collectively]...collectively ethnicities tend to act differently, they tend to have different incomes, they tend to have different rates of marital stability, they tend to have different rates of criminality...鈥�
鈥擸ouTube video,听The Impending Collapse of聽Western Civilization,听

鈥淥ne of the biggest questions in America is ethnic crime rates...and y鈥檏now the [Asians] are the model minority鈥�[while] the American blacks and blacks around the world have truly shockingly high levels of criminality and the general explanation is y鈥檏now slavery plus racism plus poverty, whatever it is which creates this unholy brew...but as far as I understand it there are significant contributions that your field can make to help people untangle [why] there are such differences in ethnic positive and negative behaviours in society...American blacks have roughly a standard IQ below whites... 鈥�
鈥擸ouTube video, Genetics and Crime: Interview with Kevin M. Beaver,

鈥淚f we could just get people to be nice to their babies for five years straight, that would be it for war, drug abuse, addiction, promiscuity, sexually transmitted diseases. Almost all would be completely eliminated, because they all arise from dysfunctional early childhood experiences, which are all run by women.鈥�
鈥擲peech at International Conference on Men鈥檚 Issues, St. Clair Shores, Michigan, June 26 - 28, 2014

鈥�... the fomenting of anti-white hatred is extremely strong and very toxic and very dangerous, [and] I can鈥檛 help but think, Jared, that if I lived in a society of [only] white peoplethen the giant fly swatter of 鈥榮hut up whitey, you鈥檙e racist鈥� could never be used against me. We could actually have debates about ideas rather than ethnicity, we could actually have debates where reason and argument could win, and of course it鈥檚 not like all white people are rational, of course not, right? But the reality is that the giant thermonuclear strike of 鈥榶ou鈥檙e a racist鈥� could not be brought to bear in the debate or in the discussion, and, I gotta tell ya, that鈥檚 kinda tempting in a lot of waysbecause if other people are unwilling to drop the race card I鈥檓 not sure I wanna to play the game anymore鈥︹��
鈥擸ouTube video, An Honest Conversation about Race: Interview with Jared Taylor,

鈥�...people have this idea that human groups somehow live in harmony together...but the sum total of human history is endless warfare between competing groups, two subspecies don鈥檛 inhabit the same geographical area for long, one will always displace the other, and this idea [diversity], it鈥檚 a complete naive reading of history鈥︹��
鈥擸ouTube video, The Death of Canada. Prepare Yourself Accordingly,

Background

Stefan Molyneux is a Canadian vlogger, self-published author and self-described philosopher who began broadcasting his opinions online via his Freedomain Radio (FDR) website in 2004. For the first decade of its existence, this site was mainly used to amplify his views on anarcho-capitalist ideology, atheism, philosophy, anti-statism, pseudo-therapy and anti-feminism. Molyneux has been extremely prolific in his output, publishing well over 1,000 podcasts and videos over the past 13 years.

Molyneux also oversees a Freedomain Radio (FDR) community which is comprised of his patrons who have to donate money to become members. The more they donate, the more access they are granted to their guru and his works. The donations requested range from $5 to $100 per month and, according to his website, this money helps 鈥渃over the costs鈥� and 鈥渟pread philosophy.鈥� The disquieting results of some of his online pseudo-therapy sessions made international in 2008 when the parents of an FDR member (who disowned them after encouragement from Molyneux) went public. This process of ostracizing one鈥檚 own family (often without warning) is known in FDR circles as a 鈥渄efoo鈥�, i.e. to disown your family of origin in order to gain freedom. Molyneux, who ostracized his own parents, is married to Christina Papadopoulos, a psychotherapist who rejected her parents after meeting Molyneux. The pair believe 鈥渢hat there is no such thing as mental illness鈥� and the 鈥湴牟士�奖鈥� section of FDR鈥檚 sister website (which facilitates patrons in ostracizing their families) describes their 鈥渁dvice on championing your inner child, finding a great therapist, and reclaiming your True Self from the destructive prison we know as "childhood." Papadopoulos was by the College of Psychologists of Ontario in 2012 when they 鈥渇ound her guilty of professional misconduct because she used the Internet to counsel people to emulate her and sever ties with their families.鈥�

Performing propaganda

So how does Molyneux manage to persuade so many people? Molyneux鈥檚 videos are often intentionally long and rambling monologues. Typically he鈥檚 filmed staring straight at the camera, talking intensely and at length about a subject as if were an authority or had conducted extensive research. This matches the design of his polished FDR website, which presents the veneer of a non-partisan and professional platform. In general, however, these videos are merely performances of competence as a depth of understanding of the subjects being discussed is evidently lacking. Yet, due to Molyneux鈥檚 confident radio-host style delivery and liberal use of infographics, these monologues may appear authoritative or convincing to the uninitiated. They certainly help to distract from what is ostensibly an elaborate illusion of expertise. As cult expert Steven Hassan : 鈥淢olyneux knows how to talk like he knows what he's talking about, despite very little academic research. He cites this and cites that, and presents it as the whole truth. It dismantles people's sense of self and replaces it with his sense of confidence about how to fix the world."

The sheer volume of information and disinformation that is thrown at viewers during Molyneux鈥檚 videos can overload their cognitive ability to process information, thereby reducing critical faculties and increasing suggestibility. Molyneux is adept at seeding his radical ideas at certain points during his sermons. He does so in a deceptive way; immediately after uttering or endorsing some extremist viewpoint he then couches it in fragmented apologies and strawman counterarguments. Molyneux anticipates the viewer鈥檚 natural response to such a radical idea and then aims to overcome it by articulating 鈥� and then brushing aside 鈥� a potential counter-argument in its weakest and/or most decontextualized possible state. This allows him to sympathize with the follower while showing them how easy it is to overcome their old reservations as he guides them to adopt his extreme view as their own.

The effect is disorientating but potent. The method of persuasion is built on a calculated disingenuousness and a farcical pretense of Socratic dialogue. Molyneux has already made up his mind about the topic at hand and his sole aim is to persuade the viewer to arrive at the same conclusion, or as he would describe it, 鈥渢he truth.鈥�

鈥淭rue News鈥�

In 2009 Molyneux began to market his videos under the title 鈥淭rue News鈥� thus shifting his propaganda into the realm of conspiracy theory 脿 la InfoWars. Molyneux wants his viewers to believe that his opinions about world affairs represent a forbidden, 鈥渙bjective truth鈥� that the establishment wishes to suppress. This narcissistic behavior hints at a personality prone to absolutism and megalomania. This was signaled in 2007 when Molyneux a 鈥渦ser鈥� comment to the front page of his site that read "Stefan Molyneux is the next Aristotle 鈥� or John Locke 鈥� or Thomas Jefferson, take your pick.鈥� In 2010, and despite a number of negative news stories about his defoo advocacy, his public profile rose after he appeared as a guest on Max Keiser鈥檚 鈥淥n the Edge鈥� show on Iran鈥檚 Press TV. The following year he appeared on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones鈥� radio program for the first time, and during 2011 and 2012 he was a regular guest on the Russia Today news channel appearing on the 鈥淎dam vs. the Man鈥� show hosted by fellow libertarian Adam Kokesh. In 2013 he appeared once again on Russia Today, this time as a guest of Abby Martin where he discussed the folly of the Iraq War. Meanwhile his 鈥淭rue News鈥� series attacked the usual libertarian targets (such as social democracy in Scandinavia) and one in this same year predicted 鈥淭he Decline and Fall of Canada鈥� but notably his apocalyptic vision at this point was along anarcho-capitalist and not racial lines. In contrast his July 2017 ,听The Death of Canada. Prepare Yourself Accordingly, stresses ethnicity, race, culture, immigration, nationalism and the ills of multiculturalism. What changed?

From libertarian to alt-right

From roughly 2013/2014 to the present, the content of Molyneux鈥檚 output has become politically extreme, shifting from the Ayn Rand libertarian right (and from supporting Ron Paul in 2008) to the ethno-nationalist far-right, supporting Donald Trump, Geert Wilders, Marine Le Pen and other far-right politicians in their electoral bids throughout 2016 and 2017. Molyneux endorses their nativist, Islamophobic, ethno-nationalist immigration policies and opposition to globalists. This represents a sharp change from his point of view in 2007 when he his viewers that 鈥淢uslims are not your enemy.鈥� He is now firmly established as a prominent personality within the so-called pro-Trump alt-right reactionary community and he occasionally collaborates with other commentators in this vein such as , , and .

By far the most disturbing aspect of his move to the far-right is his overt and sustained endorsement, promotion and amplification of scientific racism to his 650,000+ subscribers on YouTube, which has been delivered alongside apologism for Apartheid, the Transatlantic slave trade and the demonization of social justice leaders such as Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King, Jr. Molyneux now believes that non-white human beings (like the Pioneer Fund he singles out Hispanics and blacks) are racially and genetically inferior to whites and that this above all other factors explains the present and the past. This is presented to the viewer with a grin and an air of reasonableness. Molyneux鈥檚 embrace of social Darwinism and biological determinism sells a manic and apocalyptic vision of the world to his viewers by consistently warning them about non-white immigration to Europe and the U.S.

Yet how much of an ideological shift was this in actuality? After all, one of Molyneux鈥檚 libertarian heroes is Murray Rothbard, the political theorist who coined the term 鈥渁narcho-capitalism." A review of Rothbard鈥檚 positions suggests that Molyneux is merely repackaging them for the YouTube generation. Rothbard, like his disciple Molyneux, embraced the 鈥渟cientific racism鈥� of The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life, for "expressing in massively stupefying scholarly detail what everyone has always known but couldn't dare to express about race, intelligence, and heritability." Rothbard believed that The Bell Curve thesis could be used as a weapon by libertarians to 鈥渁bolish the welfare state.鈥� Once the welfare state is abolished, Rothbard how:

... the intelligence argument will become useful to defend the market economy and the free society from ignorant or self-serving attacks. In short; racialist science is properly not an act of aggression or a cover for oppression of one group over another, but, on the contrary, an operation in defense of private property against assaults by aggressors.

Rothbard, like Molyneux, that the free market merely exposed the racial and immutable inferiority of non-whites in America and that it is genetics above all other factors that explains and justifies their socioeconomic position. In 1985, Rothbard, an apologist for the Apartheid regime in South Africa, against the 鈥渓iberal crusade鈥� to end the racist power structure. His proposed solution was a caricature of utopian libertarianism when he recommended that rather than boycott South African goods, Americans should invest more, as this would 鈥渋mprove wages...for black labourers鈥� and somehow end Apartheid. To anarcho-capitalists, the solution to every problem is unfettered capitalism.

In July 2017, Molyneux interviewed South African Steve Hofmeyr, who in 2014 that 鈥渂lacks were the architects of Apartheid. Apartheid was a system of segregation. You have to ask why.鈥� In 2015 Molyneux published a video wherein he quoted an unnamed historian who claimed that 鈥淎partheid wasn't an expression of racism but concern over the survival of the white population.鈥� The source for this quote is Ilana Mercer, a paleolibertarian writer and pro-Trump activist. Mercer鈥檚 2011 book, which forms the basis for Molyneux鈥檚 YouTube video, is entitled Into the Cannibal's Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa. The tome received a glowing from Jared Taylor鈥檚 American Renaissance website. 鈥淎partheid was never based on a theory of racial supremacy; rather, it was a survival strategy for the badly outnumbered Boers,鈥� the review reads. This is a mirror image of Molyneux鈥檚 sleight of hand: a decontextualized racism is deemed immoral but it is argued that Apartheid makes sense. The real message Molyneux and Taylor are delivering to their audiences is that the application of racial discrimination in South Africa was essential to ensure white survival (read: dominance) and that force and laws should be applied to keep different races apart.

Rothbard, like Molyneux, believed in the voluntary separation of the races and both made an on the principle of open borders when they embraced 鈥渞ace realism鈥� and ethnonationalism. Rothbard, like Molyneux, had a positive association with the former KKK leader David Duke, endorsing Duke鈥檚 political in 1992 while Duke, in turn, has d Molyneux鈥檚 propaganda multiple times on social media over the last few years, most notably in his of Molyneux鈥檚 apologia for George Zimmerman, known for the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin. One could say that Molyneux鈥檚 deference to Rothbard is so obvious that the title of his 1974 book, Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature, summates the content of hundreds of hours of Molyneux speaking on YouTube.

The connections don鈥檛 end there. Murray Rothbard was a leading member of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, the libertarian 鈥渢hink tank鈥� founded by Lew Rockwell in 1982. This institute opposes the Civil Rights Act and was described in a 2000 澳彩开奖 report as being neo-Confederate adjacent with neo-fascist sympathies. Chip Berlet, an investigative journalist and scholar of the far-right, noted in the Intelligence Report in 2003 that this institute 鈥減romotes a type of Darwinian view of society in which elites are seen as natural and any intervention by the government on behalf of social justice is destructive.鈥� The Mises Institute also promoted the work of Holocaust denier James J. Martin who was 鈥渁 contributor to [the] neo-Nazi American Mercury 尘补驳补锄颈苍别.鈥� 鈥檚 final book was printed by the Institute for Historical Review, a journal dedicated to propagating Holocaust denial. Molyneux for the Mises Institute as a narrator in 2011 and 2012 and published nine different articles on Lew Rockwell鈥檚 in 2005. Rockwell, the founder of the Mises Institute, also embedded Molyneux鈥檚 take on the killing of Trayvon Martin on his site in 2013. Molyneux鈥檚 work on Rockwell鈥檚 site appears alongside articles by the Holocaust denier and members of the neo-Confederate .

Amplifying eugenics, biological determinism and white supremacy

Riding the coattails of Donald Trump鈥檚 presidential campaign, Molyneux鈥檚 move to the far-right is but an opportunistic homage to the more reactionary creeds and alliances of his hero, Murray Rothbard. This has helped drive traffic to his site and to gain followers, donations and influence by rehashing the race realist underbelly of an influential libertarian, just as the alt-right began to gain internet prominence. Like so many before him, Molyneux intellectualizes his bigotry and insularity by appealing to the false authority of scientific racists and eugenicists. He has endeavored to spread this to his followers by interviewing a veritable 鈥榳ho鈥檚 who鈥� of the disgraced and discredited race science community, many of whom are directly associated with, apologists for, or funded by, the Pioneer Fund. In all of these videos, Molyneux offers no criticism of the views of the interviewee, which amounts to a tacit endorsement of their bogus race realism.

A timeline of Molyneux interviews

September 14, 2015: Interview with Charles Murray, libertarian, biological determinist and co-author of The Bell Curve, a work based heavily on Pioneer Fund research.聽

October 5, 2015: Interview with Jason Richwine, the of a 2009 Harvard dissertation who claimed that 鈥渢he average IQ of immigrants in the United States is substantially lower than that of the white native population, and the difference is likely to persist over several generations.鈥� Aaron Patrick Flanagan of the blog noted that Richwine鈥檚 dissertation leans heavily on Pioneer Fund research and that his references include 鈥�22 publications penned by past Pioneer grantees and/or Directors (e.g. Arthur Jensen, Jean-Philippe Rushton, Richard Lynn) [and] 13 publications that Pioneer directly funded.鈥� Richwine has d Charles Murray, co-author of The Bell Curve, as his 鈥渃hildhood hero.鈥�

December 29, 2015: Interviewed Linda Gottfredson, a Pioneer Fund backed academic who publicly defended The Bell Curve and believes that 鈥渞acial inequality, especially in employment, is the direct result of genetic racial differences in intelligence.鈥� During this interview, Molyneux blamed the 鈥済overnment鈥檚 efforts to get more minorities into housing鈥� for the global financial crash of 2007. Gottfredson also approved of Molyneux鈥檚 remark that a person with a high IQ is 鈥渁 different kind of an animal,鈥� and that IQ explains all inequality in human societies; that racism and sexism are merely 鈥減seudo-scientific explanations鈥� for socioeconomic inequality. Molyneux鈥檚 lack of understanding of the complexities of human intelligence and its measurability is also revealed during this interview when he compares human intelligence to a person鈥檚 height or their ability to sing.

February 27, 2016: Interviewed Garret Jones, an economist at George Mason University whose recent monograph was positively by VDARE in July 2017. Jones draws heavily on the work of white supremacist and eugenicist Richard Lynn, and even personally thanked the Pioneer Fund figurehead in an he published in the Journal of Economic Growth in 2005. In 2015 Jones delivered a which argued that less democracy in the United States would lead to better governance. George Mason University receives substantial funding from the Koch Foundation.

April 17, 2016: Interviewed Helmut Nyborg, a Danish eugenicist and former dean of the Psychology Institute at Aarhus University, who that the poor are genetically inferior and should be paid to cease reproducing. In 2012 he edited a special journal in celebration of Richard Lynn鈥檚 80th birthday. Molyneux鈥檚 interview with Nyborg was promoted on the neo-Nazi website, The Daily Stormer, and the white nationalist .

July 2, 2016: Interviewed Richard Lynn, eugenicist and current chair of the Pioneer Fund. His work was cited 24 times in The Bell Curve, and Murray and Herrnstein specifically used it to argue that black people are racially inferior. Lynn believes that 鈥渨e do need to think realistically in terms of "phasing out" of such [incompetent] peoples. If the world is to evolve more better humans, then obviously someone has to make way for them otherwise we shall all be overcrowded...to think otherwise is mere sentimentality.鈥� His work is currently published and distributed by , which is run by white nationalist Richard B. Spencer. Spencer has called for the 鈥減eaceful ethnic cleansing鈥� of the United States.

July 8, 2016: Interviewed Jared Taylor, the editor of the white nationalist American Renaissance website and recipient of financial support from the Pioneer Fund. In 2005 Taylor wrote that "Blacks and whites are different. When blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western civilization 鈥� any kind of civilization 鈥� disappears."

December 7, 2016: Interviewed Nicholas Wade, the author of the book Troublesome Inheritance, which Jon Phillips has noted propagates the old white supremacist trope 鈥渢hat white people of European descent are inherently smarter, better, more 鈥榗ivilized鈥� than members of other races, especially black Africans and their descendants.鈥� Much of Wade鈥檚 thesis relies on Pioneer Fund research, particularly that of Richard Lynn.

August 2, 2017: Interviewed Peter Brimelow, the editor of the anti-immigrant hate site VDARE.com. Brimelow has published work by white supremacist Jared Taylor, J. Phillipe Rushton (former head of the Pioneer Fund) and Kevin MacDonald, a leading antisemite who believes that 鈥淛ews are genetically driven to undermine the power of whites by pushing such things as Third World immigration.鈥� MacDonald is also known for accepting Holocaust denier David Irving鈥檚 invitation to act as his expert witness during the Lipstadt v. Irving聽 in 2000. In 2014 Molyneux and endorsed a string of MacDonald鈥檚 antisemitic conspiracy theories. In this same , he also cited Frank Salter, a so-called political ethnologist and eugenicist. Salter acts as to Pauline Hanson's One Nation, a far-right Australian political party seeking to ban all Muslim immigration. Alexandar Mihailovic that Salter has published apologetics for MacDonald in academic journals, and was personally thanked by MacDonald in one of his volumes alongside Jean-Philippe Rushton, the former head of the Pioneer Fund.